User blog comment:Gelsadra/New theory or nobody ever think of it?/@comment-26082987-20150207000145/@comment-967403-20150212003329

Let me try my best to simply the deal without long paragraphs:


 * Concerning Deadly Fortune and precedence level: No to a certain degree. Being a game doesn't mean anything that comes to it not a game is non-canon just because it has differences. It's a franchise and everything is fair ground initially. Novels included. However, in deciding which to follow...I'd say both of them for DMC4. Unlike the previous novels where the books were released then a game recton most events (making it semi-canon since it is references in the anime),this DMC4 novel comes AFTER the game it's based on and while changes things (that's what we'll ignore. Nero fought Sanctus with Red Queen too and all that chiz), it also added things (that's the only thing to include within the character pages on their story).


 * Being a game is what we'll look at most because they tend to try and "fix" things there, however. But lets not say a game >>>>>>> everything every time at least. Companies/Writers do not look at it's popular medium and decide canoncy like that. They like to use whatever they want for that money. If it's good enough for them, they'll keep it canon.


 * Like anime filler? No..I'm not sure what you mean but no! None of the problems are like that at all.


 * Nope. He had permission to do so in the "official and canon" realm. Like I said, writers/scenerio designers are very much like freelance in the fact they can go place to place and not have to quit a company. And for it to be it's own thing, Capcom has to allow it too. Capcom says it's a official novelization of DMC4. It's not it's own thing or his version of the story. If that was the case, comics would be easier for me to read. A writer can writer a character to do this and that and another can do the opposite. No matter how much of a fan I hate it, it's canon and official and I gotta deal with it. That's for a comparison to a actually very similar problem.